Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-08
MINNESOTA.


The proposition TO vote $4,000 In bonds
| for water works of Ortonyille carried.
AL st. Paul President Cleveland aud wife
| will be drawn about the city by six mllk-wh!te
horses.
Mrs. NJ. II. Lamb, OF Wanca, has produced
several well developed cotton plants In her
garden.
The grand Jury AZ Minneapolis have indict-
ed Lon Murray for an attempt to rape MARY
Sylvester.
The ears for the steel railway at st. Clouc
have arrived and viii ranniog
Wednesday.
The Mankato Linseed Oil company pays
ninety-eight cents per bushel for fax within
ten cents Of the Chicago market.
The ~pineries are on fire at Milsca. Unless
the rain Monday extended far up 1t is feared
the flames will reach the standing pine and do
great damage.
Rev. Frank Damn, Of London, England, hss
recently settled as pastor OF the BapSisl
church at Leroy. A council has been called
10 convene September so to consider the pro.
priety Of bis public ordination.
A young son of Mr.. Brandt, the brewer, ct
Duluth, lit a short train to a keg containing a
s~nantity OF powder found by him between
Bench and Superior streets, and may lose NE
eyesight as the result. He was severely
burned on his hands and breast.
Rev. II. Fl. Simmons, OF the UNITARIAN
church at Minneapolis, presented Sunday an
elaborate argument to the effect that the an
~arcbisfs should not b. hanged. Ia his opin-
ion the death penalty defeats Its own enc,
and does not deter men from crime.
meeting OF the directors of the Duluth,
Rcd Wing and Southern railroad ana thu
Sioux City and Northern will be held at Sioux
City, Iowa, October 4, for the purpose OF con
sJlidating the two projects add building 3
through line from Sioux City to Duluth.
The result OF the special election held a
Hastings Saturday on the question of issuine
certificates Of Indebtedness for the erection 81
a work house, the sum not TO exceed S5}. coo,
reeulted as follows: In favor, 420; against
81. Rather q light vote was pollod, but d
good deal OF excitement prevailed.
at a special meeting Of the village couuc.
Ol IIItbiOUt "wednesday ~ a WV ~
submit q proposition to the people of the city
70 vote 100000 for q system Of water works
If the bonds are carried the village will pur-
chase the Ferris well at n cost If 5000, as Il
is thought there is water enough there to SUP
ply the village for all time TO come.
The tie handling machinery Friday flushed
taking out OF the river at Brainerd the first o.
F.. G. Long r. CO. IS tie drivers, a little over
40, 900, and the second drive OF 80, 600, lie close
at hand coming down. The deliveries are
fully two months later than usual, owing to
the low water and to the slow movements OF
the logs. The same drm has taken on, Of the
river $1,000 at Aitkiu and hiss 100000 fron
the Crow Wing at Motley.
Movements preparatory to the seasons
logging operations are begun at Brainerd
already-an unusually early commencement
Car loads Of supplies are received, and toting
outfits to take them into the woods, to the
camps, are oil ready. Jack Chase, Of Mime
apclis, leads of first in the Pine river section,
ard has gone to prepare W cgm rs. The OPP
orators 10 the northeastwald, toward the
Willow, have gone In to make really the
camps. Large shipments o. supplies by r!Ver
facm Aitkln and rail from Brainerd hsv be.
gun. helumbermcn themselves, who 80 thu
work, are arriving by every train, fIil thirty
days earlier than usual. 1t looks like the
|li7eliest lumber season for several years, snC
wages bid fair to be somewhat higher.
Brainerd special: 1t has been a bad day
with fires near town, which started To run
again with the wind from the eastward thi
morning aud have ragged ~furiously all day.
The smoke settled IN and over the city Sc
denselv as TO obscure the sight at Il few rods
distance and 10 be painful to the eyesigh'.
Toe mill crews went out again TO fight Are,
and teams TO move the property Of Ali.
Searles on his recently purchased farm. 1t l.
stated that c.. +. Kindred's large cut OF hay
on the Bay Lake road is burning this evening.
Fhe smok. Is so dense every where that the
actual progress the fires ere making cannot
be well observed. Rain, OF which there a.
local signs tonight, ts greatly needed, ard H.
fact unless heavy raine fall soon serious r.
suits o the farmers are almost certain 10 10
low, especially with the wind continuing from,
the east. There is at present 10 danger If
the FIRE reaching town.
A very sad accident happened three mile
west @ fTyn6r Sunday afternoon, which will
undoubtedly result IN the death Of James
Miller, q boy aged fifteen years. Miller and
another young mar named Most Peters were
bunting mink with revolvers and Miller shot
one. Before starting to pick up the mink b.
handed his revolver tn Peters. The boys were
standing several rods apart when Perers
asked Miller how he would like to be shot a.
be had shot the mink, and Miller told him
TO shoot all he wanted TO; there was nothin.
in 1t. Peters fred. the ball entering Miller,
left lung and lodging in his backbone. n,
was brought TO Tyner aud placed under
the care of DR.. Cox. He Is In terrible agony
aud beg his grief stricken parents TO shoe
him and end his suffering. Pubilc sentimen
Is decidedly unfavorable TO Peters for til,
apparent criminal srelessaess OF the act.
Winona Special, ,S:-The Gospel Army has
had smooth sailing here for anumbcr Of weeks
psrading the streets every evening with mem
bers ranging from three ut the star. 10 abou
fifty at present. Last night they met their
first drawback. They have ben holding
nightly services In the armory, which the,